O AGENTE COMUNITÁRIO DE SAÚDE NA PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE DO HOMEM: POSSIBILIDADES E DESAFIOS

Abstract

The Community Health Agent (CHA) plays a fundamental role with regard to comprehensie attention to men’s health, developing actions aimed at ensuring the access of this public to helath services, improving reception and targeting the needs of men who will be served by Unified Health System (SUS) identifying needs at home and around the home. The objective of the study was to identify whether Community health agentes (CHA’s) perform na active search in health actions directed at men in primary healt care. This is a descriptive, exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, carried out in November 2019, with 31 CHA’s belonging to Family healt strategies located in a municipality in the northern middle region of Mato Grosso. For data collection, a semi-structured questionnaire, produced by the researchers, was used. The analyzes were supported by Bardin’s contente analysis. It was evidenced that the ACS’s have knowledge about the importance of attention directed to men’s health as well as the National Policy for Comprehensive Care for Men’s Healht – PNAISH, however there are barriers that prevent comprehensive assistance to this public. Is is concluded that despite the difficulties encountered, these professionals are presente and active in the development of strategies that make it possible to serve the male audience, with welcoming and providing as complete a possible servisse as possible.